Here
is my academic genealogy:
Arun's
Adviser was:
Stephen S. Yau
Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty: Arizona State University
Stephen's
Adviser was:
Mac Elwyn Van
Valkenburg
Ph.D. Stanford University
Dissertation Title: Polarization and Fading Studies of
Meteoric Radio Echoes
Faculty: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mac's
Adviser was:
Oswald Garrison Villard, Jr.
Ph.D. Stanford University
Dissertation Title: A New Technique for Studying
Meteors and the Upper Atmosphere
Faculty: Stanford University
Oswald's
Adviser was:
Frederick E. Terman
Sc.D.
M.I.T.
Dissertation Title: Characteristics
and Stability of Transmission Systems
Faculty: Stanford University
Highlights: Widely known (with William Shockley) as the father of Silicon Valley; Founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Fredrick's
Adviser was:
Vannevar Bush
Ph.D.
M.I.T. & Harvard
Dissertation Title: Oscillating-current Circuits: An
Extension of the Theory of Generalized Angular Velocities, with Applications
to the Coupled Circuit and the Artificial Transmission Line
Faculty: M.I.T
Highlights: The first presidential science advisor (FDR), Primary
organizer of the Manhattan Project, Proposed the Creation of the
NSF.
Vannevar's Adviser was:
Arthur E. Kennelly
Self Taught!
Faculty: M.I.T. & Harvard
Highlights: Apprenticed in Thomas Edison's West Orange lab, Co-created the electric chair
Arthur's
Mentor was:
Thomas Alva Edison
Arthur
had no graduate advisor, but he is one of a few gifted men who has been
considered as Thomas A.
Edison's mentee. Arthur has been Edison's
Ex-Aids and stated
"The privilege which I had being with this great man for six years was
the greatest inspiration of my life."